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• Blog / MIT Life

  New Blog: Humanitarian Work At MIT My name is Ali Wyne, and I'll be this year's host for the new Humanitarian…

  

  Humanitarian Blog. I wanted mitadmissions.org to have an area devoted to the many people at MIT who are working to change the plight of the world's impoverished - whether by war or famine or disease or any of the other myriad

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  up, I realized that I was pretty hungry, so I decided to make cinnamon ... '07 all came by to ask for my signature on their nomination forms. (They ... Today was going to be my sleep day. I was going to go to sleep on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back and ready for action! Saying goodbye to summer and hello to my sophomore year

  

  It feels good to be back at the 'Tute!!! My family drove me up to Boston on Friday night. We expected to hit a lot of traffic, considering ... pleasantly surprised to find NO traffic at all (not even near Manhattan *gasp

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2

  

  best. A difficult claim for me to make, I know, especially considering ... sized pieces Season with salt and pepper Make beurre monté by whisking ... somewhat arrogant and definitely premature [annotation note='Link to previous

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 24, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Smashing pumpkins and other halloween treats Turning back time and dropping squash off of tall buildings

  

  by catching up on all of the work that you were supposed to have already completed. Procrastination can definitely be justified by that bonus ... , hat, and bib and used a hula hoop and plastic bags to make a giant test

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  several of my MIT friends were incredulous when I explained it to them. By ... . Compared to most people in the South, I certainly don't. But in my first ... at least 2-3 times a week (by now, of course, I have a group of people

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  materials to make popping boba and talked about working in industry. I loved ... the set-up of a physics problem to me, and I remember being awed by her ... different types of PVC together. I don’t have the impetus to just up and make

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  Barbie six (6) times. I have also cried to Greta Gerwig’s 2023 blockbuster ... ’s throats enough for society to collectively forget about the movie after last ... Vassar with my roommate, I was appalled to hear he missed out on the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  was mispronouncing the name of a continent, or the way I refused to call class and majors by their course numbers my first few weeks here, because it felt elitist to speak in a code no one outside MIT could understand

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  a trip had to include visits to prestigious college campuses. It ... Tournament and Math Prize for Girls. It would be easy to editorialize, to imbue these experiences with the overbearing hand of hindsight, to claim that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  Lawn again, accompanied by instruments to strum and bubble teas to sip ... whizzed by like a door violently swinging open on its hinges, revealing to ... relieving— none of that pressure to 'forge new bonds' and make small talk. All

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Important EA Processing Update! read this if your application is incomplete

  

  thousands of documents which came to us by mail and fax. We digitized them and ... College Board to go directly to MIT, we will receive them in time for ... unless we have sufficient information upon which to render a decision

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  to compensate by progressing in difficulty at a slightly faster rate ... nightmare that I was trying to double major in 18 and 6-3 and had mysteriously forgotten about 6 required classes, which I would have to pack into senior

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What have you been doing lately? SPOILER ALERT: Mostly StumbleUpon

  

  been hiking and exercising a lot, and trying my best not to get burned by ... have passed (read: the 4th) so what's your favorite blogger up to? I don ... 5th favorite blogger is up to, I can tell you! Besides traveling (and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Alternative Transportation Fast ride in a short machine

  

  , check. Ability to make R2D2 whirring noises and generate smoke by friction ... pedal and accelerated the motorized shopping cart from 0 to (approx.) 25 mph in the gaspingly brief time required to scream barely the first two

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Another Fab Four Sarah Dupuis '10, Zachary Bjornson-Hooper '10 Emily Houston '10, and Renaldo Webb '10.

  

  Class of 2010 Excels: from Rifle Champion to Water Quality Researcher ... passions. Zachary Bjornson-Hooper, who wants to study bioengineering to design fuel cells, was named by Teen People magazine as one of 20 teens who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  together and make decisions for each case. Finally, we'll put the decisions ... will be an exciting month. By now, I've read my first folders of the ... awesome. It is incredibly inspirational to read about you and see just how

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  attacked by corruption, it will also begin to corrupt the process it had been ... given to them by the district, and homework is often turned in through ... , I want to spotlight a few of them because they are just. that. cool

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  's in part due to my winning combination of Pepto Bismol chased down by red Gatorade and chick flicks chased down by Star Wars. (Yesterday was ... wasn't going to make it very far. So I called in and talked to the dean

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  going to march to Charlestown by land, or they were going to go via the ... like to go to Haymarket on Saturday mornings and make a nice cheap ... skating rink in the winter. By the time we got to Frog Pond, it felt really

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006